CVE-2015-5283

The sctpinit function in net/sctp/protocol.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.3 has an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps, which allows local users to cause a denial of service panic or memory corruption by creating SCTP sockets before all of the steps have finished...

kernel: udp socket NULL ptr dereference

The udpsendmsg function in the UDP implementation in 1 net/ipv4/udp.c and 2 net/ipv6/udp.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via vectors involving the MSGMORE flag and a UDP socket...